Comment by WhitneyLand

Collaborating across departments with people from different functional areas has absolutely nothing to do with dishonesty or lack of transparency.

If you have good people in those positions in your organization, they will come together and make good decisions.

If you don't have the right people in those positions, then that's not going to be a good thing irrespective of my advice.

Transparency doesn't require anarchy and anarchy doesn't buy transparency.